Well this week was loaded with good work and exciting
events! Here are just some of the updates from this week.
Our new housemates are Elder Hamilton, a missionary I've
known since Madureira. He's from Sacramento and is also finshing up his mission
and goes home in May. He's a great guy. Dad, send some of your Sacramento areas
and we'll see if he recognizes some people! [Scott served in Sacramento Spanish many, many moons ago.]
He is training a brand new missionary, Elder L from
Bahia. He's 25 years old, was baptized as a kid and and is now serving his mission. Great kid as well!
This week we had lunch with an awesome couple from
the ward- W and E. They like making healthy foods and refrain from eating meat. Soy meat isn't a favorite of mine. You can ask mom- who tried to make soy
meat tacos and I immediately noticed the difference! She made Kibe, which is practically one of the only Brazilian dishes I'm not a fan of. It consists of whole grain wheat, onion, salt, eggplant and mint leaves. Really weird taste,
but we have to eat, so down it went. I doubled up on salad, goes to show I'm not
a fan
We ran into Guto, one of the bishopric from Alacantara! He
reported back to us about X, who received the priesthood and passed the Sacrament this week!
Carnaval is brutal. President established a schedule for
the entire mission. Missionaries work in the morning, and have to return at 6
pm. But after releasing this information, our leaders got a phone call from him
saying that our zone and one other zone (that is in the center of Rio) have to all
be home by 1 pm. We only get to work a few hours in the morning, go to lunch
with the members and return home. We've been laying a lot of Settlers which is
a great time! It will remain like this until Thursday...
The good news is that we worked to get X's baptism all
set. We taught him several times this week, he passed the interview and the
baptism was a success. He brought several non-members from his family and we had
a turn out of about 25! He bore a powerful testimony afterwards and several,
especially his mother were brought to tears!
So that's the run down from this week!
I love you all so much and I hope you all have a great week!
Elder Siebers
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